What does Scripture say about aging, frailty, long-term care, and the final season of life? In When the Light Grows Dim, an ordained minister and university instructor in long-term care and clinical geriatrics brings Ecclesiastes 12 into direct theological conversation with Clinical Geriatrics and Long-Term Care, showing how the biblical text speaks with unusual force to the lived realities of bodily decline, caregiving, dependence, and hope.
This book examines the poetic imagery of Ecclesiastes 12 in conversation with the clinical and pastoral realities of aging. Without reducing the biblical text to a medical manual, it shows how Scripture speaks with remarkable honesty to sensory loss, frailty, fear, mortality, and the dignity of the aging person. It also offers a clear spiritual framework for understanding old age in the light of God, death, and eternal accountability.
Written for pastors, chaplains, caregivers, students, families, and older adults themselves, this work bridges biblical theology, clinical geriatrics, and compassionate ministry. It invites readers to see aging not merely as a medical condition to be managed, but as a deeply human and spiritual season that calls for wisdom, reverence, and hope.